January 12, 2001

The Boss Pays a Call to a Princeton Classroom

His parents couldn't make him go back to college, but Greil Marcus succeeded, if only for a day.

Bruce Springsteen rode the backstreets from his home in Rumson, N.J., last month to Princeton University, where he caught the final day of Mr. Marcus's course, "Prophecy and the American Voice."

If the title -- which could practically be Springsteen's autobiography -- wasn't enough to draw him, there was Mr. Marcus, the rock historian and author of books on

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